Legal Opinion
State v. Tindall
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided April 17, 1978No. 32PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUSKINS, Justice.
On 24 June 1977 defendant moved to dismiss the murder charge against him on the ground that he had been denied a speedy trial in violation of his Sixth Amendment constitutional rights. Following a hearing before Rouse, J., at which defendant and the State offered evidence, the motion was denied. This constitutes defendant’s first assignment of error.
Every person formally accused of crime is guaranteed a speedy and impartial trial by Article I, section 18 of the Constitution of this State and the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Federal Constitution. Klopfer v. North…
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